noun. One who is harmed or killed by another, especially by someone committing a criminal or unlawful act.

noun. A living creature slain and offered as a sacrifice during a religious rite.

noun. One who is harmed by or made to suffer under a circumstance or condition.

noun. A person who is tricked, swindled, or taken advantage of.

noun. A living being sacrificed to a deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; usually, some beast slain in sacrifice: but the sacrifice of human beings has been practised by many peoples with the object of appeasing the wrath or conciliating the favor of some deity, or in the ceremonies connected with the making of vows and covenants.

noun. A person sacrificed; a person killed or ruined, or greatly injured, or made to suffer in the pursuit of an object, or for the gratification of a passion or infatuation, or from disease or disaster: as, many have fallen victims to jealousy, to ambition; a victim to rheumatism; the victims of a railroad accident.

noun. One who is cheated or duped; a dupe; a gull: as, the victim of a confidence man.

noun. A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

noun. A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion.

noun. A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident.

noun. Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.

noun. A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

noun. Anyone who is harmed by another.

noun. An aggrieved or disadvantaged party in a crime (e.g. swindle.)

noun. A person who suffers any other injury, loss, or damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking.

noun. An unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance.

noun. Narratology. A character who is conquered or manipulated by a villain.

noun. an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance

noun. a person who is tricked or swindled

"I also thought it implied judgment on those who didn't survive or left them out--though the term victim is certainly loaded to."